Last year at Ely Folk Festival I saw and tried a new Dino Baffetti melodeon that The Music Room were offering for sale. It's the only box I've played that felt and sounded like my Oakwood. A few months later I read that Oakwood had been working on a design for Dino Baffetti (or something like that - both names were involved somehow) and I think that's what I had seen because it was so uncannily Oakwood like - much brighter tone than your standard black and white Dino which is still a very nice and loud box.

I wonder if this prototype is connected in any way. It's a very tempting price. If it's a two-voice instrument it's a good price even at £899 for the banded Sandpiper - a lot less that I paid for my Oakwood.

Anahata